Les Mains d'Orlac (English: The Hands of Orlac) is a French science fiction novel written by Maurice Renard.

The plot involves a celebrated pianist who loses his hands in a track crash and has them surgically replaced with those of an executed murderer.

[1] Renard's novel was one of his many science fiction stories he wrote in the early 20th century and was initially published in 58 episodes in L'Intransigeant from May 15, to July 12, 1920.

The pianist Stephen Orlac suffers a railway accident that gives him serious head injuries and deprives him of his hands.

[3] Evans wrote that both Le Docteur Lerne and Les Mains d'Orlac reflect Renard's awareness and interest in the scientific advances of the era, specifically within the areas of biology, psychology, and physics which are the focus in the novels.